INTERPRETATION

“Life is either resistance or surrender… Resistance is the decision to act alone. Surrender is the decision to act with God.”

This is a very deep chapter for me. Those three sentences were to me the essence.

Ruiz in his “Four Agreements” wrote that we are to have no expectations. In Interpretation, Ferrini explains why. Expectations really set us up for correction. Sooner or later our beliefs and emotions will be bruised by expectations not being met. This is a sign that we need to make a correction. Experiences are not there to meet our expectations. They are there to expand our awareness. When that is not happening to the fullest we will be given a jolt to make us aware that we need to correct. What we consider failure, error or disappointment are only jolts to lead us back to the path leading to the walk with God and away from the walk alone.

Ferrini goes on about how we can talk our selves into anything. We can take the truth and invert it to believe we are right, that others are to blame, that the way has been shut off to us, but we are not changing the truth we are only successfully hiding it from ourselves. Every experience we are given is an opportunity for each of us to reject the illusion we have created and to embrace the truth.

He ends by saying that there is no time table for our learning only that it is happening. It can not be forced or stopped. We only have to trust that it is happening and that the Divine Mind within us is working.

Relating this chapter to my recent history I realize that it wasn’t until I stopped fighting the fact that the relationship with another had ended that I realized it still existed. The form had changed. We were no longer physically close which had caused many obstacles that neither of us seemed able at the time to cross, but the spiritual link still exists. I feel his closeness more than I did when he physically was within touch. I can now re-look at us and let the lessons he shows me that I need to learn appear from our time together and our time now through emails and a connection within. Nothing is loss; all is gain.